@kjharcombe Hey Keiran, how's it going? We have seen your mail on the TL mailing list, so we wonder if you want to focus on that for now? :)
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What was the name of the band that did the Zelda's cover music of Paulo Cereda's presentation at TUG 2021? 🎶 🙂
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Just heard about the Island of TeX BTW, really cool project!
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For example I think the official or semi-official container images of TeX Live was a true need! Thanks for that!
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Oh, and for everyone coming here after Paulo's talk today: We missed to mention https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/archive which provides an archive of older (abandoned) TeX-related projects (hosted on SourceForge or other hosters where it is unclear whether old source code is well preserved). If there are any ideas what's missing, simply reach out to us 🙂
By the way, just for the sake of my curiosity, do you mind if I ask why you chose Kotlin?
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We can program with COBOL and as long as we are having fun, let's go! 😉
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oh no
Interesting, I thought Kotlin was more on the mobile side of things but it seems I should have a closer look 😄
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Kotlin in data science is now a reality. :)
hmenke: welcome :)
Paulo Cereda: While I'm here: Any chance we are going to see native Arara binaries at some point? Kotlin supports building native code: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/mpp-build-native-binaries.html
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But since I don't speak Kotlin myself, I don't know what kinds of caveats are involved there.
I already had the feeling that it wouldn't be that easy. Thanks for looking into it.
What's the size of the IoT TeX Live Docker images? I'm considering using them for CI, but I'm also a little bit concerned about bandwidth, because on those systems unused images are pruned nightly.
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Ideally you wouldn't install all of TeX Live into a single layer as you are doing right now. The perfect layering would install packages with a similar update frequency in upper layers and base packages in lower layers.
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Maybe you will find this interesting: https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images
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Unfortunately, TeX Live's dependency management is suboptimal, to say it politely, so applying this technique will be non-trivial.
Putting weekly updates in their own layer should work out. There is an upper limit of 125 layers (or so) in a Docker image, but since TeX Live releases only live for a year there can be at most 52 weekly updates.